We would not detract aught from what is justly their due; but it is as reprehensible to give them credit for what they did not possess, as it is to rob them of what is theirs.

These qualities, peculiar to Buonarroti's sense of form, do not detract from the languid pose and supple rhythm of the figure, which flows down, a sinuous line of beauty, through the slightly swelling flanks, along the finely moulded thighs, to loveliest feet emerging from the marble.

According to Arnold, each poem should be a unit, and he protested against the tendency of English poets to use brilliant phrases and figures of speech which only detract attention from the poem as a whole.

Whatever detracts from them detracts from sculpture, painting, and poetry, and the world is the loser.

In vain the other vessels of the German fleet sought to detract the Queen Mary's fire.

To be sure, it detracts a little from this filial merit, that she did not know what she said.

And they are more taken up with their own little miserable squabbleswith detracting tales of one anotherthan with either.

I feare I have detracted time too long

when by Gerrards plots I should have first been call'd to a strict accompt How, and which way I had consum'd that mass Of money, as they term it, in the War, Who underhand had by his Ministers Detracted my great action, made my faith And loyalty suspected, in which failing He sought my life by practice.

Then do not frown or scoff at it, Deride not, or detract a whit.

In the mornings she was "wrapt up among my books with antiquarians and virtuosi"; in the afternoons there were visits to pay and receive; in the evenings dinners (at other people's expensewhich fact did not detract from her pleasure), assemblies, and the theatre and the opera.